Sheila Gunn-Reed and David Menzies talk about aliens and monkey pox and why we should all get along better with chimps and gorillas. Plus, it's National Junk Food Day and it's Robin Williams' birthday.
00:22:12.960Okay, I've had enough of their lies here for a second.
00:22:32.960Because you're watching this and you're thinking that you'd have to think that Japan was on another planet to think that they don't have access to wasabi, which literally grows everywhere.
00:22:44.960So why do you only have to use Japanese wasabi?
00:28:19.960Speaking of buffaloes roaming the prairie.
00:28:22.960Well, maybe if he ever comes back out East, maybe Adam and I should get into the squared circle so I can learn the ropes in case there's a beckoning career for him in professional wrestling.
00:28:35.960Like, I know anything about that other than being a viewer.
00:28:39.960But no, and by the way, Sheila, as an update to your excellent reporting in Adams, too, I believe, regarding warning labels on Canadian ground beef, they're backing away from that.
00:35:11.960She calls for peace, constantly calls for peace.
00:35:14.960You know, and she talked about, you know, the one resounding thing she said, Sheila, that,
00:35:21.960you know, stayed with me, was she talked about how, if you look at a Chihuahua, right?
00:35:27.960Pretty much totally dependent on human care in terms of feeding, giving it water, giving it shelter.
00:35:33.960And yet the Chihuahua is 98% of a DNA match with the great noble wolf, right?
00:35:42.960Who is free and doesn't need any help from anyone.
00:35:46.960And I guess the point she was making was that, you know, those of us who cherish freedom, the way it can be taken away from us, the way we can be reduced from wolves into Chihuahuas is actually quite frightening.
00:36:01.960Now, how is that considered hate speech?
00:36:04.960She said many other things, none of which were hateful, none of which was even urging people to demonstrate or protest or start a convoy.
00:36:12.960But for some reason, her being at that dinner, she was amongst other undesirables, I guess.
00:36:22.960It is an absolute outrage that this woman is behind bars.
00:36:26.960And I would say, you know, when Pierre Polyev was talking about the prime minister shouldn't be the decision maker in terms of influencing courts and police, I would say we're already there.
00:36:39.960I would say Justin Trudeau does influence or tries to influence both justices and police agencies, law enforcement agencies.
00:36:51.960So I think we've already hit that odious benchmark already, Sheila.
00:36:58.960Not only that, the crown prosecutor in this case is a donor to the Liberal Party of Canada.
00:37:04.960And not just an incidental donor, like a $17,000 high value donor that gets invited to exclusive Justin Trudeau events.
00:37:31.960And so I want to hear someone who's campaigning to be the next prime minister of Canada say, clearly, we've got a problem with her being a political prisoner.
00:37:42.960There are political ties to the people involved.
00:37:46.960The law used to lock her up was disproportionate, should never have been invoked.
00:37:51.960We need to look at all those issues and all those issues can be addressed without the prime minister sticking his hand directly into the courts.
00:38:00.960And also, I'm not trying to make this about me, but look what happened to me back in December when I was on a sidewalk hoping to scrum Justin Trudeau.
00:38:10.960And I was manhandled by his Royal Canadian mounted henchmen.
00:38:16.960And I am sure, Sheila, the reason for that, because they know who we are.
00:38:29.960And I am positive we'll never be able to prove it.
00:38:33.960And we have our first court appearance in regards to our civil suit in September that Trudeau saw me and he told his thugs, give them the works.
00:38:44.960You know, I'm tired of this SOB embarrassing me by shouting questions from a distance that are impolite, you know, and you can see the video coverage there.
00:38:57.960Also gave me COVID that night, probably something else we can't prove, but it was uncanny, the timing, because you sent along that article from mainstream media, ranging from the CBC to the National Post, that indicated that half of those thugs.
00:40:16.960So this is I'm going back to when he was initially charged before he was convicted.
00:40:23.960He was given after killing 16 and injuring another 13 in Humboldt.
00:40:30.960He after he blew a stop sign and drove into the Humboldt Broncos teams bus as it was on his way to a playoff game.
00:40:38.960He was released with just a thousand dollars bail.
00:40:41.960And now after serving less than three years, he has just been granted day parole.
00:40:50.960So when I say that Tamara Leach has been treated disproportionately, I cannot stress that enough, that he was released on a thousand dollars bail.
00:41:00.960And sure, you know, he's been absolutely remorseful.
00:41:03.960I don't think he intended to kill anybody that day.
00:41:06.960But 16 people are dead and 13 more had their lives just torn apart and all their families, too.
00:41:14.960And so the harm by his actions caused in the community, I think far greater than anything Tamara Leach ever did.
00:41:29.960And Sheila, I believe that there were maybe seven family members there to give victim impact statements, urging the parole board not to let this man free.
00:41:43.960And I guess there's no empathy, is there?
00:41:46.960I mean, I understand some of these people were breaking down in in tears because of what happened to their loved ones.
00:41:53.960And no, let's not, I guess, deal some cruel and unusual punishment to this truck driver.
00:42:02.960Meanwhile, look at the cruel and unusual punishment for those who lost their lives and those who are permanently disabled.
00:42:09.960I really question the empathy of those who sit on parole boards when you can hear those family members speak and they're breaking down into sobs and you go, yeah, he deserves a second chance.
00:42:22.960What about the second chance for all the victims?
00:42:26.960Well, and like I said, it clearly he didn't intend to kill anybody.
00:42:31.960I think this is a terrible, terrible disaster for him and for the families, but proportionality counts here, given the harm caused to the entire country by his actions.
00:43:05.960And I gave the example earlier of Omar Khadr becoming the next Lotto Max winner without even having to buy a ticket because of hurt feelings.
00:43:14.960And that the liberals envision themselves for the first time ever and the last time as fiscal conservatives, meaning it would cost far more to fight this in court.
00:43:23.960It is I sometimes I really question what this country is becoming and in such a rapid pace, Sheila.
00:43:32.960And we can basically trace back the awfulness to the year 2015 when these Justin Trudeau liberals got elected.
00:43:47.960That's that's what this government is.
00:43:50.960We should bump ahead because we've got a few more things to talk about on the list.
00:43:55.960And Olivia and Efron went through the trouble of putting these things into a list where we should follow it from CBC.
00:44:05.960Thirty seven thousand eight hundred people sent privacy breach notifications linked to Newfoundland cyber attack.
00:44:13.960And this is related to Newfoundland and Labrador's largest health authority being subject of to a cyber attack.
00:44:22.960About one in every 13 people in the province had their health records accessed in this.
00:44:28.960And it includes patients along with former and current employees of the health authority.
00:44:35.960And this is only going to get worse because you've been forced to provide all the data about yourself to everybody you've come in contact with lately.
00:44:48.960If you are somebody who would provide a vaccine passport to your bartender.
00:44:53.960Who's protecting that information now so that you could go get a drink?
00:44:58.960I mean, just and we know that the Public Health Agency of Canada, not only were they paying TELUS for your location data, TELUS was backdating it to 2019 so that they could compare then to now to see if you were being COVID compliant with restrictions.
00:45:17.960There are others, other companies, another one called Blue Dot, where they were finding they were providing the Public Health Agency of Canada information about whether or not you had traveled near and around a retirement home.
00:45:30.960I bet you didn't know that Blue Dot was paid for your information.
00:45:34.960They never asked you if they could provide your information to the Public Health Agency of Canada.
00:45:39.960You were never compensated. So when I see stuff like this, I think, OK, all these other companies now have your information.
00:45:47.960Who's protecting your information now from cyber hackers?
00:45:50.960Or do you just get a letter from the government saying your privacy has been breached one more time?
00:45:55.960Yeah. You know, a couple of things, Sheila, I once interviewed a computer expert and basically he said, if you can build it, meaning, you know, a database or whatever, it can be hacked, period.
00:46:06.960There's someone smart enough to get through the most extensive firewalls and password protections.
00:46:12.960But where I look about this, this Newfoundland Labrador case, that's a cyber attack.
00:46:18.960I guess it's somebody maliciously getting in.
00:46:21.960Folks, Sheila recently posted a superb piece.
00:46:59.960This makes my blood boil, Sheila, because this wasn't a cyber attack.
00:47:05.960This was the government asking for this information.
00:47:08.960And by the way, is it even legal what TELUS did and Blue Dot, for that matter, the idea of giving information, personal information, without the consent of their customers?
00:47:25.960And it's worse than that, because not only did they turn over your information to the government, they profited from it.
00:47:31.960TELUS sold your information for two hundred thousand dollars to the Public Health Agency of Canada.
00:47:37.960I have no idea what Blue Dot's been paid.
00:47:39.960We filed for access for that contract.
00:47:42.960And I'm sure it's going to be more because Blue Dot was even more comprehensive about what they were providing to the government about you.
00:47:50.960They were able to show like where you had been within your municipality.
00:47:54.960If you had been near a place that where vulnerable populations would be like hospitals and nursing homes, if you had crossed the border, if you had moved from your health authority to another health authority zone during the day, they gave that information to the Public Health Agency of Canada.
00:48:13.960And so it makes me wonder, how is this any different than the unauthorized breach of what of the Newfoundland data?
00:48:23.960The government didn't ask for it, I guess, is the only difference, because the outcome and the effect on the person whose privacy is breached is all the same.
00:48:32.960And Sheila, usually the phone companies, when it comes to this, the sharing of information, personal data, what have you, for example, they're very strict about it.
00:48:42.960If you were to call your husband's cell phone provider, you being his wife, and saying, I need to know when he made a call.
00:48:53.960I need to know what his bill amount was for you're not getting it, even as his wife, they're going to say, sorry, your husband has to get on the blower and give us his permission to give that to you.
00:49:05.960So how is it that those rules in terms of privacy go out the window when the federal government comes calling on TELUS?
00:50:44.960And and in fact, that insult to injury, Sheila, as understand that the CRTC is giving the cell phone operators in this country, that little ogle ogleopoly that we have the right to increase rates yet again.
00:50:58.960We are amongst the most screwed over cell phone users in the world.
00:51:03.960And by the way, all those people that with the worst coverage, by the way.
00:51:27.960And that competition and that ability for other people to get into the marketplace has made everything infinitely better in other parts of the world.
00:51:52.960I'm going to poke a big hole in this argument.
00:51:55.960What the what the telecom providers, what they say is that, well, we are a huge country with the second biggest country in the world with a relatively small population, 38 million and change.
00:52:06.960And that's where the costs come into effect.
00:52:42.960And I just think in light of the TELUS privacy breach, in light of Rogers screwing over this nation two weeks ago with their systems that came down, we still don't have a real explanation why that was.
00:52:56.960Their way of doing a mea culpa is to raise your your rates.
00:53:06.960There was a report out in October that says a new report by a Finnish telecom analyst shows that Canadians pay more for cell phone service than anyone else in the world.
00:55:15.420You know, I'm not going to name the retailer, but the other day, Lady Manzoid was at a big box superstore, and she was wearing some of our less than flattering Justin Trudeau paraphernalia on her person.
00:55:30.620And lo and behold, the clerk that served her was completely simpatico, absolutely hated Justin Trudeau, and gave Lady Manzoid a discount, a contractor discount on the stuff she was buying.
00:55:46.100So here's an example, folks. You wear your politics on your sleeves, and you might make new friends. You might get financially incentivized.
00:55:59.580Oh, absolutely. Easily. Several times over. So there you go. Don't be shy about it. Say it loud. Say it proud. It doesn't have to be a rainbow, folks. It can be an F Trudeau hat or something like that.
00:56:14.500And wear it before it becomes illegal to wear it. And if you think I jest, believe me, once they get done with the internet, I'm sure Justin Trudeau will consign some fashion police in terms of what slogans.
00:56:30.460You'll probably be allowed to wear Pride Parade stuff, like only rainbow cowboy hats and stuff like that.
00:56:36.720You got it. And I noticed we plugged this. Painfully high inflation rates will remain, according to the Bank of Canada governor. Well, knock me down with a feather. Does that surprise anyone?
00:56:55.140And do we have a video on this? We do? Okay, let's check this out.
00:57:02.600There's no way around it. 8.1% inflation is painfully high. We do expect, we know gasoline prices came down in July. So a month from now, when StatsCan publishes July inflation, it probably will come down a bit.
00:57:16.880But look, unfortunately, inflation is probably going to start with a 7% for the rest of the year. It is going to be painfully high.
00:57:27.060This is cutting into my monkey budget.
00:57:33.520You know, Sheila, I was at the supermarket on the weekend, and I was in the produce section. I couldn't believe the prices. I hadn't been for a while. And I came across a $3 cucumber in season, right? We grow cucumbers in Ontario.
00:57:50.340And I came up to the produce manager. And I said, you know where you can stick this $3 cucumber? And he said to me, oh, I do, sir. The problem is I already have a $4 zucchini in that place. Anyway, what I'm saying is that these prices are outrageous. And don't take it out on the staff at the supermarket.
00:58:13.680No, don't do that. Don't do that. It's not their fault that Justin Trudeau is terrible and printed money like it was just nothing. But I think your cucumbers are probably double what they are here.
00:58:27.180Oh, is that right? I wonder how that happened. But in many cases.
00:58:33.960Oh, and Sheila, it's the same in the US. And in both cases, these are self-inflicted wounds by the federal government. We have left trillions of dollars of mineral wealth landlocked because we're anti-pipeline. Same with Joe Biden. He took a country under President Trump that was exporting energy, exporting it.
00:58:58.200It was energy self-sufficient for the first time in decades. He stopped the allowance of drilling on federal land, you know, getting leases for that, stopped fracking.
00:59:10.400And as a result, the US is once again energy dependent. And you see the pathetic spectacle of essentially President Biden on his knees begging the Saudis to up imports into the US.
00:59:24.680And the I mean, I can't imagine for the first time, I'm kind of on Team Saudi Arabia and giving Biden the middle finger.
00:59:33.700But, you know, it comes down to energy as being a real big reason why we're having these out of control prices, Sheila.
00:59:43.060Well, there's also this. Let's bring up this article from Black Locks, because while families are being crushed by inflation and the federal government saying we don't know how it happened and don't expect us to do anything about it, they are playing a major role in it.
01:00:02.300And this is outside of carbon taxes and then raising the carbon tax and printing money and not building pipelines that would drive the price of oil and gas down because it would bring supply up.
01:00:14.920They're doing this. So they raised the price of certain food items that everybody needs.
01:00:25.780And they did this outside of the things that they were already doing to drive up the price of food.
01:00:32.480So a federal agency, the Canadian Dairy Commission, that walks down the street holding hand in hand with the dairy cartel last February 1st, raised the wholesale price of milk by 8.4%.
01:00:45.820Guess who that hurts the most? The poor.
01:00:49.620And then the wholesale cost of butter went up 12.5%.
01:00:55.760I believe it. I'm constantly, like every time I walk past the dairy case, I throw two salted butters in.
01:01:02.520And like it went from around four and a half bucks to like six bucks in the last year.
01:01:10.480The commission stockpiles butter and cheese. This is the despicable part.
01:01:16.360They stockpile butter and cheese to artificially inflate the prices.
01:03:01.640But without getting into the weeds, as I did in the article, you will find in Canada that owners of dairy quota, for example, are not farmers.
01:03:12.060They're Bay Street lawyers, for God's sakes, right?
01:03:15.180Stockbrokers, they're not even using the quota.
01:03:18.700It's something they can bargain with, trade with, sell.
01:03:22.460It is a perverse system that would be more in tune with the Soviet Union of the early 70s than Canada of the early 70s.
01:03:31.260And I can tell you, in the early days of supply management, it's hard to imagine.
01:03:34.900Do you know, Sheila, that Kentucky fried chicken restaurants were closing early because they had no chicken?
01:03:42.500Again, they ran out of chicken and there was not enough quota for the chicken farmers to raise more chicken and to do so without the quota would be illegal.
01:04:20.200And I sympathize with dairy farmers and poultry farmers who have been forced into the quota system because now you're stuck with this expensive quota.
01:04:31.600There are ways to unravel the system so that your asset, this quota, isn't rendered completely stranded to you.
01:04:41.240We have to look at other countries who have done this.
01:04:43.940And actually, let me hint at something.
01:04:47.280I have an interview with Roman Babbert today where he talks about this, about how to make life more affordable.
01:04:54.100I have not heard him speak out against supply management before, so I was very interested to see that he is bringing up policy proposals on this.
01:05:44.620But this shows you the folly of a supply management system based on quota.
01:05:49.300And it was a farm in Ontario that was raising or they were hoping to raise free-range organic chickens, very high-end product.
01:06:00.220And what they said to the supply management quota masters is that we don't have the extra quota to do this and we can't afford to get any more.
01:06:10.580But every single one of these chickens, every single breast and drumstick is destined for U.S. export.
01:06:18.760This is a high-end product that is not going to affect the supply.
01:06:25.080One ounce in Ontario or Canada in terms of extra chicken on the market.
01:07:59.240You know, I think Polyev is really good at thinking on his feet, and I've been impressed with his handling of questions, but he flubbed that one.
01:08:12.100And he answered it correctly, but he left out the second part that Canadians want to hear.
01:08:50.140But I think Polyev has come out against funding the media in any form.
01:08:56.000And it's not just a financial matter, Sheila.
01:08:58.040It's an ethical and moral matter as well.
01:09:01.300How can media outlets, how can the watchdogs accept funds from the biggest entity they should be keeping their eyes on?
01:09:11.400As our boss says, the watchdogs have become the lapdogs of this government.
01:09:17.080It is completely unethical for a journalistic organization to accept money from anyone aside from its subscribers because it is a conflict of interest.
01:09:28.680So I think that would be a win for Mr. Polyev.
01:09:32.260And I'm sorry if they say, oh, well, boo-hoo, you know, the industry's changed, everything's online.
01:09:37.080I'm sorry if you were making horse and buggy wagon wheels 120 years ago, would you be decrying the rise of the horseless carriage, you know, the motorized vehicle, because it's going to put you out of business?
01:09:52.260Because things change, change your business plan and survive on your own as opposed to sucking from the taxpayer teat, for God's sakes.
01:10:02.860Well, and this goes back to my comments about the glory of European cheeses.
01:10:49.340That's their business plan, and that's wrong too.
01:10:52.980You know, I was just looking because I remember reading a story about Bombardier and their ATVs, which I think is the only profitable side of that company.
01:11:02.400The Can-Am's, the ATVs, so they make a good product as far as ATVs go, but I think the Can-Am ATVs are made outside of Canada at this point.
01:11:19.120In Mexico, yeah, their ATV assembly plant is in Juarez, and now there's two Juarez plants that assemble the side-by-sides and the regular quads.
01:11:30.620So this Canadian company, Canadian company, getting all the taxpayer-subsidized money, the only profitable side of their company actually manufactures their vehicles outside of Canada in Juarez, Mexico.
01:11:43.360So that should tell you something there.
01:11:44.960And, by the way, Sheila, correct me if I'm wrong, do they, does Bombardier still make the Skidoo, or did they sell off that division?
01:12:01.680I just know that the Can-Am side, I'm more consumed with the quads and the side-by-sides, and I do know that they don't make those in Canada.
01:12:09.440I thought for a time maybe they made them in the United States, but now their manufacturing facility is in Juarez, two facilities.
01:12:43.100But we still protect the market for the likes of Rogers so they can get rich off the backs of Canadians while providing awful customer service and awful coverage.
01:13:23.660Well, believe me, I had my share of them at Anime North Toronto.
01:13:28.500You can catch that on our website or the Rebel News YouTube channel.
01:13:31.980The angle, folks, was that it was the most oppressive vax and masking regulations I've ever seen.
01:13:40.240Stuff that was even beyond what you would have seen at the height of the pandemic in late 2020, early 2021.
01:13:47.320And the sad thing was the various geeks and nerds that were attending Anime North, no problem, completely indoctrinated.
01:13:55.920Even if they were wearing a mask, they had to have a paper mask on under the plastic mask, which would be giving you actually more protection than the paper mask.
01:14:17.460I went to the local grocery store, grocery supply today and picked up 1,200 plastic straws, 1,000 grocery bags for trash, and 40 styro cups.
01:14:25.260I'll be doing that every payday until they run out.
01:14:37.060I think they clear their plate before they put it in the dishwasher and just off goes my great cutlery.
01:14:42.580I have these, like, they have barbed wire on them because, you know, I live in a log house and I live on a farm.
01:14:46.880But I've reverted now to just going to the dollar store and buying spoons and putting them in the drawer because I can't trust my children not to throw them out.
01:14:56.460And so now I've got teachers and Justin Trudeau saying, oh, we want zero waste lunches.
01:15:02.260So don't send any plastic spoons on their lunches.
01:15:06.380My stuff just gets thrown out faster then because the kids throw it out at school and they come home and just throw out another spoon.
01:15:13.900Why can't I just, I feel like throwing out my metal spoons is worse for the environment accidentally than intentionally throwing out a plastic spoon.
01:16:28.000Fraser, I'm told to proceed with caution here because we might have to cut the chat because of YouTube.
01:16:36.280So yesterday we met up with Kara McKinn as she traveled across Canada bringing light to the harm of a medicine.
01:16:45.620It's too bad Rebel did not cover the story, but it will be on other sites later.
01:16:49.320We didn't know, you know, like this is a big country with 37 plus million people and we do keep an eye to things, but we don't always, you've got to tell us.
01:17:59.660I get that vibe, too, when they are all of a sudden putting bug protein into other things that never had bug protein before and don't require any additional protein added to it.
01:18:10.820Like, why would you add it to potato chips?
01:18:13.200But it's turning up on the labels and you wonder, what kind of creep shows are enjoying thinking about other people accidentally eating bugs against their will?